All Quiet on the Western Front is yet another war book. Although it is a book about war it is unlike any war book ever written. In this book it is getting across to the readers that war is bad and has many disadvantages to it. All Quiet on the Western Front has many themes to it. One theme would be the effect of war on young soldiers. A second theme would be the disgust and fierceness of the war. A third and final theme would be the let down of the younger generation of soldiers being taught by the older generation. After the war is over young soldiers will usually be traumatized by things that went on in combat.
The many different effects on soldiers is a huge theme in this book. Soldiers at any age will be affected by war mentally, except war at the age of nineteen can have different effects. Just like Paul and his other friends; who include himself, Kropp, Leer and Muller. They are all friends who went to the same school together and voluntarily signed up to be in the army. The soldiers have to struggle with no sleep and rarely ever enough food to survive. The army dropped tremendously in size from 150 men to eighty. They were all tragic loses but for the ones left; “the men settled down to smoke, rest and play card to forget about their slightest survival during the trip to the front lines.” Paul was affected by the war; he had to watch his friends die. Paul carried Kat while he was slowly dying in his arms. The effects of war are awful especially on young men at the age of nineteen.
This book of war is full of disgust and fierceness. Practically every image you perceive in your mind is full of fighting and death. I believe that Erich Maria Remarque the author of the book wrote this book the way it is to show the downside of war and not the good of war. I believe that Remarque is against war and wants the readers to understand how bad war. I do agree with what Remarque is saying, I don’t agree with war. Like Paul says in the book “That the...